[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14356]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              DEMOCRAT PAYGO: YOU PAY, THEY GO ON SPENDING

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, later today President Barack Obama will push 
Democrat lawmakers to follow pay-as-you-go budget rules. PAYGO rules, 
as they are known, in theory would require new Federal spending or tax 
cuts be offset by spending cuts or even tax increases elsewhere. Now, 
this may sound reasonable to some Americans, but the devil is always in 
the details, and the American people have reason to be skeptical about 
newfound calls for fiscal responsibility from this majority.
  Under Democrat control, the Federal budget deficit is projected to 
approach nearly $2 trillion. In the last several years, non-defense 
spending has increased by 85 percent. The President and the Democrat's 
budget just passed will double the national debt in 5 years and triple 
it in 10. And now calls for new budget rules?
  With Democrat plans for more borrowing, more spending, more bailouts, 
and more debt, the Democrat definition of PAYGO is all too clear to the 
American people: you pay, and they go on spending.

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